Raf SimonsFall/Winter 2021
Words and meanings that influenced the Raf Simons Autumn/Winter 2021 collection, without hierarchy or intentional sequence. An equilibrium, contrast between disparate elements, unexpected similarities and parallels, a love for and loyalty to particular themes, ideas, inspirations. Juxtapositions and contradictions, with a quiet logic. Fabrications, colours and silhouettes combine notions of couture with youth culture, a process of elevation and respect. The re-scaling of garments suggests different form language and new purposes, as does their rematerialisation. References to history are reassuring: the history of both Raf Simons, and of fashion, a comfort in their familiarities. Suggestions of different worlds colliding in alien gestures. There is one aesthetic language, but it creates the individual.
